I'm pulling my driveway. We all know what that means.

It's time from the drive to work.

Okay, so today I'm talking all about monolour design.

Okay, but before I can get into all the elements of design,

I first have to explain a basic principle of the game.

Okay, so when Richard Garfield first made magic,

he had to solve a basic problem of trading card games.

Would he refer to as the Queen's problem?

The idea is, I am playing a game of chess.

And if I'm allowed to choose all my pieces, why don't I choose 15 queens and a king?

The one king is because it's the wind condition.

Why wouldn't I choose all queens?

Other than the king, why wouldn't I choose all queens?

Why play a pawn or a rook or a knight?

Why not just play a queen?

All queens.

It's the most powerful piece.

And the answer was he needed to find ways in a trading card game that encourage you to want to play different things.

So he ended up coming with two different forces that in different ways encouraged you to play more cards.

One was the mana system, meaning that there's a curve, that you develop your mana as the game progresses.

So what that meant is in the first turn of the game,

a one drop is very powerful, where a six drop is useless to you.

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